Politics Quotes

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!

We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.